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Save the date: June 6-8, PyData London 2025! 🎉

Tutorials: Friday, June 6. Talks: Saturday-Sunday, June 7-8

Location: Convene Sancroft, St. Paul's

Tonight's Schedule

18:30 Doors open

19:00 Talks start ⬅️ YOU ARE HERE

19:15 Main Talk #1 + Q&A -> John Carney

19:45 📣 Community Announcements 📣

19:50 Break 🥂

20:05 Main Talk #2 + Q&A -> Saurav Maheshkar

20:45 ⚡ Lightning Talk⚡ -> Victor Zommers

20:50 ⚡ Lightning Talk⚡ -> Anand Rawat

20:55 to 21:00 We're done 🔜 The Banker 🍻

1st Main Talk: Platforms for Valuable AI Products: Iteration, Iteration and Iteration - John Carney

Abstract: In data science experimentation is vital, the more we can experiment, the more we can learn. However quick iteration isn't sufficient, we also need to be able to easily promote these experiments to production to deliver value. This requires all the stability and reliability of any production system.

John will disucssed building platforms that treat iteration as a first class consideration, the role of open source libraries, and balancing trade-offs.

2nd Main Talk: Implementing Grounded AI Code Agents - Saurav Maheshkar

Abstract:
With context window on the rise, there's been an increase in the number of tools who depend on entire codebases. In this talk, Saurav will discuss some alternative techniques one could use to provide quality relevant context to build better AI Code Agents with some example projects.

1️⃣⚡ The Glicko-2 Algorithm in the Context of Go (Baduk, Weiqi): A Smarter Framework for Competitive Ranking in Zero-Sum Game - Victor Zommers

2️⃣⚡ Automated Prompt Engineering for Deploying AI Application at Scale - Anand Rawat

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